After hearing three hours of public testimony from a standing room-only crowd, the East Lansing Board of Education passed a motion during Monday night’s meeting that will close the Red Cedar Elementary School.
The federal Pell Grant program, a source of student funding for about 9.4 million students nationwide, is safe from falling over the fiscal cliff — for now. As President Barack Obama and leaders in Congress continue to negotiate how to address the year-end fiscal cliff — a $500 billion combination of scheduled tax increases and mandatory spending cuts that take effect in January — they will be forced to find a quick solution or risk plunging the nation back into a recession.
The case surrounding advertising junior Brandon Carmack was transferred to Lansing’s 30th Circuit Court during Monday’s second preliminary examination at East Lansing’s 54B District Court.
After he spent the previous day lamenting his team’s overly giving holiday spirit following a 20-turnover performance against Louisiana-Lafayette, Tom Izzo’s squad decided to give him a gift that even he could appreciate Monday.
Since naming senior center Derrick Nix and sophomore guard Russell Byrd as co-team captains at the team’s media day in October, head coach Tom Izzo has seen leadership emerge from several different places across the roster.
Twelve games into the regular season, MSU hockey’s (4-6-2 overall, 3-4-1 CCHA) sophomore forward Matt Berry has emerged as an offensive powerhouse for the Spartans.
Many times, it’s not good enough for a leader to talk the talk, but they must walk the walk as well, and senior guard Jasmine Thomas is doing that for the MSU women’s basketball team (5-0) so far this season.
After riding a six-game winning streak late into November, the Spartans ended the regular season in the most unfortunate fashion possible — getting swept in their final two matches. The two sweeps weren’t against just any teams, either. They were against in-state rival Michigan and No. 1 Penn State.
Up-and-coming hip-hop artist Macklemore and producer Ryan Lewis recently have stirred up quite the frenzy among students in East Lansing.
While he was a student at MSU, alumnus Blake Selby was a competitive bodybuilder.
Frontier Ruckus will return to East Lansing at 8 p.m. on Friday for a performance at The Loft, 414 E. Michigan Ave., in Lansing.
Wharton Center is prepping its Cobb Great Hall stage for a portrayal of friendship, loyalty and heartbreak.
Across the state, Michigan tree growers just completed one of their busiest weeks — the week of Thanksgiving, when they prepare their trees to be sold across the country — and likely won’t see a break until after the holidays.
As questions clutter the Department of Homeland Security and its student visa policies, MSU could have to readjust how it accepts international students who are not suitably fluent in English. 66/
During the past few winters, Greater Lansing has experienced everything from the 2011 blizzard, where the university shut down thanks to more than 10 inches of snow, to exposed grass on last year’s Christmas morning.
The Avian Science Club hosted its annual turkey sale throughout November and sold more than 190 turkeys.
Many of you probably saw the recent news broadcasts about a woman in Cleveland who drove up on a sidewalk to get around a school bus.
As the role of higher education continues to change in students’ lives, classrooms themselves also are changing, and some say it’s for the worse.
As state Rep. Stacy Erwin Oakes, D-Saginaw, campaigned for the state House for the first time in 2010, she suddenly was very aware she was a woman.